{"product_id":"between-dancing-and-writing-kimerer-l-lamothe-9780823224036","title":"Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies","description":"This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. In close readings of Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, LaMothe traces this attitude to formative moments of the field in which philosophers relied upon the practice of writing to mediate between the study of religion, on the one hand, and theology, on the other.In the second part, LaMothe revives the work of theologian, phenomenologist, and historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw for help in interpreting how dancing can serve as a medium of religious experience and expression. In so doing, LaMothe opens new perspectives on the role of bodily being in religious life, and on the place of theology in the study of religio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kimerer L. Lamothe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823224031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823224036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.42w x 0.94d","brand":"Kimerer L. Lamothe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44159224512767,"sku":"9780823224036","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4484a480-569a-45fc-9407-7d828ea36845.jpg?v=1689081338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-dancing-and-writing-kimerer-l-lamothe-9780823224036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}